Can Urban Shadows do Night Watch (the book series by Sergey Lukyanenko), and how much modification, if any, would be needed?
Can Urban Shadows do Night Watch (the book series by Sergey Lukyanenko), and how much modification, if any, would be…
Can Urban Shadows do Night Watch (the book series by Sergey Lukyanenko), and how much modification, if any, would be…
Oooh… this is a great idea!
This could work fairly easy if the players all understand the special color and tone of Lukyanenko’s take on Urban Fantasy.
I think the most adjustment would need to take place in changing the factions and what their fictional positioning. Some playbooks might not make as much sense but talk about it with the group on how to interpret them.
It absolutely could. Would the Gloom warrant its own custom move?
As the series progressed there were more factions introduced, and I think you’d need to dig in to those for inspiration if you wanted to match up to Urban Shadows a bit more. I think you can probably pair Night Watch and Urban Shadows up very well though. I think Moscow would make a great location and the books are full of nice details that would make your city seem realistic and different. If I was doing this the main rules tweak I’d want to make would be relating to the balance of light and dark, probably using debts somehow.
For those not familiar with the source material, the two sides have an agreement. You, as a light side magician can’t just use magic to save someones life, if you do then the other side get a licence to do something equivalent and almost certainly opposite, like feed some innocent teenager to a vampire.
Alfred Rudzki Gloom/ Twilight, for sure. Maybe something that triggers whenever you go down any amount, or back up a level? Or one roll to go in, one to come out.
John Henry I’ve seen the films also, and read the first couple or three books. I feel there’s definitely mileage for a tabletop game there.
Eric Nolan yeah, the balance of the treaty is a bit more interesting than, say, the Masquerade, where rule zero is, “don’t get caught.”
If you end up writing this up, please share! I fell hard for these novels.
They probably could, though you might want to look into world of darkness expansion I can’t remember the name of. Main focus in books is on mages, so you might want to find ways to differentiate them. While it seems that there’s only 2(or 3 if you count later books) sides, in practice I can easily see (or would want this to be a thing) situations where vampire/werething /etc group while nominally being under the rule of one of the watches is indeed a power to recon with.
You’ll also want to introduce hierarchy as a thing, as watches are effectively The Underworld Police